scriptorium
English
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English scriptorium
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin scrīptōrium, from Latin scrīptōrius (“pertaining to writing”). Doublet of escritoire.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔː.ɹɪəm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /skɹɪpˈtɔɹ.i.əm/
- Hyphenation: scrip‧to‧ri‧um
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Noun
scriptorium (plural scriptoria or scriptoriums)
- (countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.
- 1912, G[ilbert] Roger Hudleston, “Scriptorium”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph] Shahan, John J[oseph] Wynne, editors, The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, volume XIII (Revelation–Simon Stock), New York, N.Y.: Robert Appleton Company, →OCLC, page 635, column 1:
- The rules of the scriptorium varied in different monasteries, but artificial light was forbidden for fear of injury to the manuscripts, and silence was always enforced.
- 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxii:
- Very soon, however, I hesitated. It was labour-intensive work, scriptorium-slow.
- 2008, James Ronald Royse, chapter 7, in Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri, page 499:
- Nevertheless, Aland criticized Martin's suggestion that the codex was the product of the scriptorium attached to a monastery,536 on the grounds that there is no evidence for the existence of monasteries in the year 200, or for the existence of scriptoria at all connected with the Church at that early date.
- 2009, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective, 13th edition, volume 1, page 289:
- Among the earliest Hiberno-Saxon illuminated manuscripts is the Book of Durrow, a Gospel book that may have been written and decorated in the monastic scriptorium at Iona, although its provenance is not documented.
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Translations
room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scrīptōrium.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌskrɪpˈtoː.ri.ʏm/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: scrip‧to‧ri‧um
- Rhymes: -oːriʏm
Noun
scriptorium n (plural scriptoria, no diminutive)
- scriptorium (place where manuscripts are produced)
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin scrīptōrium. Doublet of écritoire.
Pronunciation
Noun
scriptorium m (plural scriptoria)
Further reading
- “scriptorium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
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Latin scrīptōrium
From scrīptor (“writer, author”) + -ium or equivalently, scrībō (“to write”) + -tōrium (suffix forming nouns denoting places).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [skriːpˈtoː.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [skripˈtɔː.ri.um]
Noun
scrīptōrium n (genitive scrīptōriī or scrīptōrī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
| genitive | scrīptōriī scrīptōrī1 |
scrīptōriōrum |
| dative | scrīptōriō | scrīptōriīs |
| accusative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
| ablative | scrīptōriō | scrīptōriīs |
| vocative | scrīptōrium | scrīptōria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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Borrowed
- → Catalan: escriptori
- → Italian: scrittorio
- → Occitan: escriptòri
- → Portuguese: escritório
- → Romanian: scriptoriu
- → Spanish: escritorio
Adjective
scrīptōrium
- inflection of scrīptōrius:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “scriptorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- "scriptorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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